The Final Victims
Subtitle: Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783-1810 (The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World)
Edition: Har/Cdr edition
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: August 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781570035463
Subjects: International trade; Slavery & emancipation; Social history; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Slave trade; Modern - 18th Century; History; History - U.S.; History: World; United States - Colonial Period; North American; North America
First sentence: When the War for American Independence ended in the early 1780s, many Americans eagerly turned their attention from war to restoration.
Description: "McMillin examines the volume and business of importing slaves from 1783 to 1810, the African origins of those captives, and their treatment by shippers and North American merchants. Tracing a shift in North American slaving commerce from New England to the lower South, McMillin tracks the vessels that imported slaves to America, particularly into Charleston, Savannah, and New Orleans. McMillin suggests that previous scholars have underestimated the number of slave voyages and consequently the magnitude of American overseas slave trading during this era. He maintains the founding fathers did little to discourage the importation of slaves and asserts that - with the lengthening duration and distance of the notorious "middle passage" - conditions for African captives most likely worsened after the Revolution."--BOOK JACKET.